Gay Montreal Gui 2023 - gay bars, clubs, snas & more - Travel Gay

Contents:

• THE BT GAY NIGHTLIFE THE NATN
• GAY MONTREAL
• THE UNSUNG HISTORY OF CIRCU PARTI, WHERE GAY MEN SEEK SEX AND FREEDOM
• 50+ GAY PRI EVENTS & PARAS AROUND THE WORLD
• JOURNEYS; ON GAY CIRCU, THE PARTY NEVER ENDS
• GAY VILLAGE

THE BT GAY NIGHTLIFE THE NATN

What started out as a mostly gay-male circu party has also grown to a mixed event: the Black & Blue dancefloor is one of the rare plac where nobody r what your sexual orientatn is. The Bt Gay Nightlife the natn Montreal's Village is Canada's top gay party circuBy: Adair MacGregor.

Startg to grab a nnectn wh the mastream gays, the bar tot two dance floors and reputedly the bt mic town. Gay Sex Trivia - Kontak & ACCM. September 1-7, 2021 the Montréal Gay Village.

GAY MONTREAL

Bonjour Élévatn - The 2nd Annual Québec Gay Ski Week. I'm lookg for a gay men's dance party, and I'm a ltle shocked that I n't seem to fd one. Every other "gay" men's dance party is "mixed".

In Montreal, "mixed" typilly means like 50/50 straight upl/gay men -- but the vibe is pretty straight. To be perfectly ank, 's not clear to me that this isn't the future of "post-gay" -- Montreal (and Canada) have had gay marriage for 8 years or so now, and the number of purely gay dance clubs has jt been gog down and down. It seems surreal to me that this gayt of ci, there don't seem to be a gay dance party on NYE.

THE UNSUNG HISTORY OF CIRCU PARTI, WHERE GAY MEN SEEK SEX AND FREEDOM

The circu—a loose global work of often weekend-long danceathons, where partygoers (almost all gay men) nvene om around the world to bond spirually, socially, sexually and milly—is one of the most unique phenomena to emerge om queer muni over the past few s. Undoubtedly, many younger gay men prefer smaller venu that "bask the bety and openns of queer culture.

" Plenty of olr gay men, too, fd the whole ethos of circu parti — glow sticks, remixed diva anthems, lor them, "body fascism"—to be tired figure out the state of the circu 2017, THUMP spoke wh Mickey Weems, a lecturer at the Universy of Hawai'i Manoa who has extensively studied circu parti (alongsi relig, anthropologil and folklore terts).

50+ GAY PRI EVENTS & PARAS AROUND THE WORLD

Weems spoke to their past, prent and potential future, explag what role the circu has played shapg queer and gay culture, and what s evolutn says about the same today. A gay circu party (Photo via)THUMP: Can you give me a psule history of the circu? When the Gay Activist Alliance was formed—the first gay rights group, born only six months after Stonewall—they had danc an old firehoe SoHo.

And New York, thoands of men began gatherg at Downtown loft spac that began croppg started pourg , wh plac like Flamgo and Twelve Wt, two of the most proment gay male dance spac, full of sweaty men dancg all the same time, Fire Island beme the place for people who uld afford . The term "circu" me om beg the "need to know circu"—not only diss, but "--the-know" plac the gay muny that even clud, 1980, the Sat opened the East Village.

One thg the 2002 documentary When Boys Fly [which followed a group of young gay men attendg the Miami Whe Party] got right was showg someone fallg out [passg out om dg e] was sndalo. Then you started seeg the rise of the ter, which pecially affected the gay datg scene. A handful of proment gay punds saw the parti as a waste of our energy and rourc.

JOURNEYS; ON GAY CIRCU, THE PARTY NEVER ENDS

People like Michelangelo Signorile, who wrote about his experience at the Palm Sprgs Whe Party Life Outsi, a book about gay culture at the time, were posg that the parti were crics like Signorile, Larry Kramer and Gabriel Rotello, parti were seen as havens for irrponsible behavr, sex and dgs. Most of the kds of studi look at the areas of gay culture—like the bathhoe scene, club scene, the app scene—bee they're supposed hot spots for HIV fectn and rampant dg the qutn is: do the people dog the studi unrstand our muny at all?

Bee what they're "studyg" is jt what go on regular gay that "regular gay life" has e to mean somethg very different 2017. There's no qutn that for gay men, thgs have gotten better. This generatnal divi between gay Boomers and lennials has to fluence how they perceive circu parti—or even if there's still a need for, as you said, the circu reached a nadir earlier this century, has that cle been nstant, or have they ma a eback?

GAY VILLAGE

And if so, what's the motivatn for younger gay men to attend a circu party?

H ave the parti themselv evolved to meet the challenge of a changed landspe for gay/queer culture a post-liberatn world?